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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following two writers were stigmatized as exemplars of "bourgeois decadence"?

2. ________ focalization is classic narrative called omniscient narration, according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Narratology."

3. Ecocritics emphasize writers who highlight ________ as their subject matter.

4. In the chapter titled "Narratology", ________ means slow telling where an author stages a tale for readers whereas ________ means relating where the narrator summarizes events without trying to create an illusion.

5. Ecocritics expand literary practice to emphasize factual writing with ________ work like travel writing and regional literature.

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the "Vulgar Marxism"?

2. What is narratology?

3. Briefly discuss what post-colonial critics do according to the narrator.

4. Explain what liberal humanism and stylistics have in common.

5. What are the four characteristics that define the term "Political Shakespeare"?

6. Briefly explain new historicism as it is described by the author.

7. According to the narrator, what is one significant effect of post-colonial criticism?

8. What are some of the advantages of new historicism?

9. What does ecocriticism study? What is another term for ecocriticism?

10. Is stylistics confined to just the analysis of literature? Explain.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify, analyze, and discuss the following quote: "The most basic difference between liberal humanist and structuralist reading is that the structuralist's comments on structure, symbol, and design, become paramount, and are the main focus of the commentary, while the emphasis on any wider moral significance, and indeed on interpretation itself in the broad sense, is very much reduced."

Essay Topic 2

Identify, list, and describe the specific functions ecocritics perform in their analysis of literary text.

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss how and why Sigmund Freud is relevant to literary theory. Give at least five supporting examples that indicate that relevance.

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